British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and “administrative detainees” held without charge or trial.

On 17 April Palestinian organizations called for action against G4S for its role in Israeli prisons where Palestinian political prisoners from the occupied territories are held in contravention of international law.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in London published Michael Deas’s report on the call and invited G4S to respond. G4S submitted an update with old statements that does not address the criticism of the provision of services to prisons in Israel. Meanwhile, about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners bellow out their ill-treatment in a mass hunger strike.

Who Profits - a research project of the Coalition of Women for Peace – has provided the information on G4S activities in Israel for the rejoinder below, including its extensive G4S report of March 2011.
Business as usual with private enterprises in settlements

Who Profits confirms that G4S provides security equipment and personnel to shops, supermarkets and businesses in the illegal settlements of Modi’in Illit, Ma’ale Adumim and Har Adar in the West Bank and in settlement neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem. Through its merger with Israeli security firm Aminut, G4S has incorporated security services to businesses in Barkan Industrial Zone in the West Bank. The continuation of Aminut’s business operations was announced on the website of G4S Israel.

Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and the annexation of East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. Numerous UN resolutions and the 2004 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s wall in the West Bank have confirmed that settlements violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention — which states that “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

Establishing businesses in the settlements entrenches the illegal settlements and may also lead to their growth. G4S assists this process by providing security services to the businesses concerned. Moreover, its action is discriminatory as services provided to the settlements cannot be used by Palestinians. G4S’s remark that “a number of contracts with private enterprises [in the West Bank] were not discriminatory or controversial” is therefore completely amiss.
Assistance to Israeli checkpoints

G4S Israel mentions its “homeland security activities” in a presentation of November 2011 (in Hebrew). The services include providing scanners to checkpoints in the “seam zone” and to Erez checkpoint in Gaza. The seam zone is located in the occupied territories between the green line — the 1949 armistice line between Israel as it was established in 1948 and the West Bank — and the wall. Who Profits ascertained that the checkpoints of Qalandia, Bethlehem and Irtah are included. The project has filed a request in the framework of the Israeli Freedom of Information Act to find out the full extent of G4S Israel’s services to checkpoints.

The system of checkpoints connected to the wall is designed to limit and control the movement of Palestinians within the West Bank. As such, the checkpoints serve Israeli settlement policies. The ICJ ruled that “the construction of the wall and its associated regime, by contributing to the demographic changes mentioned […] above, contravene Article 49, paragraph 6, of the Fourth Geneva Convention.” The “associated regime” of the wall includes the checkpoints. One can argue that by providing and servicing security equipment for the checkpoints, G4S Israel is facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention.
Close ties with the Israeli police

There are close ties between G4S Israel and the Israeli police. G4S Israel mentions on its website that it is the sole provider of electronic security systems to the Israeli police. In its November 2011 presentation, the company confirms that it still provides security services to the Israeli police department in the West Bank. In addition, G4S Israel mentions that it provides access control systems, metal detection gates, public announcement systems, burglary detection systems, fire detection systems and building inspection systems to police stations inside Israel.

The ties between G4S and the Israeli police became even closer when - last year - the Policity group won a 25-year contract to build, operate and maintain the new Israeli police training center in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh. G4S owns 50 percent of Policity and will be the operating contractor of the project.

G4S must be aware of the instrumental role that the Israeli police play in implementing the country’s discriminatory and repressive laws, for example in the demolition of Palestinian property, the forcible eviction of Palestinians from their homes, the repression of protests against Israeli policies, the violent blocking of Palestinians from prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the shutting down of Palestinian media. By providing services to the Israeli police, G4S has sided with the force that tramples on basic human rights.
Assistance to the Israeli Prison Service

G4S Israel is deeply involved in Israeli prisons by providing security services to all jails run by the Israeli Prison Service, including the so-called “security prisons” inside Israel and in the West Bank. The Israeli authorities label Palestinian political prisoners as “security” prisoners and the prisons where they are held are therefore called “security prisons.”

For example, G4S installed the peripheral defense systems on the walls surrounding Ofer “security” prison in the occupied territories and it operates a central control room for the entire Ofer compound which houses a military court. G4S equipped Ketziot and Megiddo “security” prisons in Israel with their entire security systems. The G4S website clearly indicates that Ketziot prison holds “2,200 security prisoners.” The same source reveals that G4S provided the central control room for the entire security system in Megiddo “security” prison where over “1,200 security prisoners” are held.

In addition, G4S provides security services to Damon “security” prison, to the detention and interrogation facilities of Abu Kabir in Jaffa, to the “Russian Compound” in Jerusalem and to “Al-Jalameh” (Kishon) detention center in Haifa. Human rights organizations have collected evidence showing that Palestinian prisoners are regularly subjected to torture and ill-treatment in these facilities. Cell 36 of Al Jalame prison is one the cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks, wrote The Guardian in January.

Israel systematically denies Palestinian political prisoners their basic rights, including the right to a fair trial and to protection from arbitrary detention which are enshrined in international law. At present, Israel holds over 300 Palestinians - including 27 lawmakers - in arbitrary detention, which is also known as administrative detention.

In addition, Israel is not allowed to transfer Palestinian prisoners from the occupied territories to prisons in Israel, because Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits this. Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are thus unlawfully held in prisons in Israel. By delivering essential security services to prisons in Israel, G4S is assisting Israel in these violations of international law.

In its response to Deas’s report, G4S keeps silent about its services to the Israeli Prison Service. It is obvious that the company has no intention to exit these contracts.
Legal advice to G4S criticized

Following fierce criticism of G4S involvement in the Israeli occupation, the company engaged Professor Hjalte Rasmussen to review its business in the West Bank and to provide a legal opinion. During a three-day trip to Israel and the West Bank, Rasmussen visited a number of banks and supermarkets in East Jerusalem, and a shopping mall in the settlement of Maale Adumim. He also collected information from G4S in London and Israel. Rasmussen did not visit Israeli prisons.

At the time, Dan Church Aid and Amnesty International Denmark expressed their discontent about the poor quality of Rasmussen’s report; the former described it as “shameful” because it contains so many errors. The Secretary General of Amnesty International Denmark, Lars Normann Jorgensen, said that “a case as serious as this one requires more thorough observations in the areas concerned than Hjalte Rasmussen has done.”

Nonetheless, G4S writes to Business & Human Rights that Rasmussen concluded that “G4S did not violate any national or international law.” Given its weaknesses, G4S would be ill-advised to rely solely on Rasmussen’s opinion in concluding that their activities do not violate international law.
Contractual obligations no justification for continued complicity in the occupation

However, G4S concluded that it “would aim to exit a number of contracts which involved the servicing of security equipment at the barrier checkpoints, a prison and a police station in the West Bank,” explicitly excluding the provision of services to private enterprises in the settlements. In addition, G4S shows no intention of terminating its services to prisons in Israel. As long as G4S is in any way involved in the detention of Palestinian political prisoners in Israel or the West Bank, it is not moving in the right direction.

Moreover, exiting the contracts concerning the checkpoints, a prison and a police station in the West Bank might take until 2015. The company decided that it needs the permission of its clients – who are engaged in implementing the occupation and repression - to exit the contracts before the expiry date. Contractual obligations to Israeli state organizations cannot justify the company’s continued complicity in the occupation.

Fabricated Sky News 'Whistleblower' Story
Ben Fellows comments are here used by Sky as if he had spoken to them. He hasn't, they just got the quotes and massaged them from his other interviews.
Point being he was NOT anonymous. Happy to give his name at the point Sky broadcast this fraudulant pack of lies.

Whistleblower's Olympic Security Warninghttp://news.sky.com/story/959450/whistleblowers-olympic-security-warni ng
By Roddy Mansfield, Sky News - 10:03pm UK, Thursday 12 July 2012
A whistleblower involved in training staff for security firm G4S has told Sky News he believes there is a 50-50 chance someone could carry a bomb into one of the Olympic venues.
He alleges that because of the pressure to recruit staff corners have been cut and some of the staff are not up to the job.
The employee, whose identity Sky News is not revealing, said there is a "no fail" policy for security staff and all recruits passed the course regardless of how competent they were.
Staff - who had received two days of intensive training operating X-ray machines to detect lethal weapons and explosives - failed to spot decommissioned hand-grenades and firearms during a test.
Security officers asked to pat down a volunteer with a deactivated 9mm pistol in his sock failed to find the weapon.
Another guard picked up a fake improvised explosive device put through an X-ray scanner as a test and waved it around, despite being trained never to touch suspect bombs.
A trainee, who failed to keep track of which personal items belonged to whom, enabled a volunteer to put a mock bomb through the X-ray machine then disappear into the crowd.
All these members of staff were later passed as having successfully completed training. They were told to collect their security badge and uniform and were cleared to work in the Olympic park.
The whistleblower who contacted Sky News has extensive military and professional security training and is an expert in weapons and IED detection.
He said: “I can see so many security loopholes for this event. Security staff are given a very short time to achieve their training and there is a very slack approach.
“During my employment I planted pretend IEDs, decommissioned weapons, knives and other large metallic objects on students and sent them through the metal detectors.
“They’re not being seen by X-ray staff and they’re not being picked up during physical searches, so the training is completely insufficient.
“The people making these mistakes are then given a tick in the box at the end of the day, sent round the corner to collect their uniform and sent home to await an email with their start date.
“Ninety-nine per cent of personnel coming through have no security background; many have language problems so they won’t be able to communicate with ticketholders and many completely lack confidence.
“We found out we’d won the bid for the Olympics in plenty of time. If they had recruited and vetted personnel from day one I don’t think there would be a problem.
G4S said it was committed to ensuring the games were “safe and secure”.
In a statement, the company said: “This is an unprecedented and very complex security recruitment and deployment exercise which is being carried out to a very tight schedule.
“We have made very significant progress - we already have around 4,000 people at work across 100 venues.
"We currently have over 9,000 additional people going through the final stages of the required extensive training, vetting and accreditation process.
“We have encountered some delays in progressing applicants through the final stages but we are working extremely hard to process these as swiftly as possible.
“We understand the Government's decision to bring in additional resources and will work with LOCOG, the military and other agencies to deliver a safe and secure Games."_________________www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.orgwww.rethink911.orgwww.patriotsquestion911.comwww.actorsandartistsfor911truth.orgwww.mediafor911truth.orgwww.pilotsfor911truth.orgwww.mp911truth.orgwww.ae911truth.orgwww.rl911truth.orgwww.stj911.orgwww.v911t.orgwww.thisweek.org.ukwww.abolishwar.org.ukwww.elementary.org.ukwww.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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IAN
Major false flag event at Olympics.
Or within a few weeks of Olympics we'll see major financial collapse.
Deliberate failure of G4S.
Military moving in was all pre-planned.
Militarisation of London..

BRIAN
Deliberate Failure by G4S & Govt to provide excuse for massive event or failure at the Olympics.
General public needs to wake up to massive numbers of foreign troops and mercenaries being brought into the country.
We are being set up to witness a major terrorist event whch has been facilitated by our own government.

Take your pick--or do you think they have missed one.(the one Tony Farrell highlighted--internal tyranny) Dont forget "qui bono" who benefits. The only global one is the tried and tested alciada scenario.

Quote:

In its annual report, the ISC said MI5 had identified three potential sources of terrorist threat to the Games:

:: An attack by al Qaida and its affiliates - particularly on US or Israeli nationals;

:: An attack or a hoax by Irish republican terrorist groups aimed at causing disruption rather than mass casualties;

:: Clashes between rival groups or ethnicities present in London during the Games who would not normally be considered a security threat to the UK.

To bring onside reluctant nations or non Nato nations then a strike at the Olympics could easily persuade most nations to come onside against "terrorism" A world event precipitating a world change. Article 5 of the NATO treaty enabled all Nato nations to have to come onside as a result of 911. A false flag at the opening or closing ceremony--and as previous theread the closing ceremony date has a significance.

Perhaps another thought would be that a ff of a certain kind could render any hope of UK leaving the EU null and void. "Better together" than isolated._________________JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12

My personal and favorite thought is that some innocent bystander will be shot dead sparking race riots!_________________'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'

“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”

Thorium, I do believe he may have hit the button here.
It would place our Marines in quarantine and excite all people tied to the NATO troops, if they are indeed NATO troops.
They could of course be Serco's private forces, as Serco has its own civil government in waiting to take full control under contingency doctrines,

October surprise keeping Obama in office while they bomb the hell out of Iran._________________KEEP IT REAL

In the 1948 olympics, Olympics coming just after WWII, the only possible hint at security came in the many boy scouts helping things go smoothly.

We cannot have it both ways I believe, either we understand that all terrorist attacks, which are few, have been false flags set forth by military intelligence, or we believe there are Islamic terrorists waiting to hit the Olympics.

The latter having been under an agenda of genocide since 2001 have carried out no attacks anywere in the world save for the theatres created by the same miltary intelligence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Israel.

The term false flag is understood by those who believe there will be some dark event during the Olympics, they say such in their reports, therefore I would ask how positioning our military, and or private security will stop the aims of those that control them (military intelligence) from carrying out any type of disaster?

That said, he was very exact in his presentation of his findings, and showed he understood the sacrificial lamb that is G4s is to be replaced by Serco, so I am not so much critical of his report as it were.

I believe the real story comes in the creation of the new ARK of a new covenant which requires fear, mass fear, to kick start its influence and make live the telluric Ark they are creating with such buildings as the Dome, Canary Wharf, Heron Tower, the Shard and the Pinnacle, overidding the Ark of the Christian covenant.

Of course another false flag would help in this regard with or without any kind of military presence, but the military presence on this scale will ensure their are no happy thoughts on the ground which will affect the whole Olympics and offer up the energy old lucy requires to fire up its Ark.

If they are to carry out another false flag at these Olympics, all the queens horses and all the queens men won't stop the CIA-Mossad from doing what they wilt in order the world allows the attack on Iran.

Thus I would rather not position our troops in the line of fire for a civilian games, let those who have made the lives of civilian's in this country a misery with their acting in the manner of the constabulary, while being nothing of the sort, let those acting as private security and general little Hitlers for the last 20 years face their own kind of behaviour with possible real consequences that they might see the error of their ways.

As it stands these Olympics are fear personified from which some games will break out, this event is not the Olympic games, it is 'thee Olympian's' pushing their mind on the world in order they can form a fully fledged civilian military mind just as was achieved for the rise of Hitler...

As an ex military chap yourself Life, who would you prefer to do games security?
G4S or your former colleagues?

Life wrote:

So there is his story..... with an ending exactly as the elites want it....more security more military....Mmmmm?

Many in the truth community Tony are seeing the recent ‘Lee Hazledean’ as a .................. because its like saying all this security is needed, (which will only lead to more liberties being taken away I.E. reinforcing the terrorist meme.)

Which is not to say there should be no security, but how far would you have to go with it to stop the possibility of anyone committing an act of terrorism. It's just like the David Rockefeller meme explained by Aaron Russo, a Bogie man that can't be defined? So it carries on and on thus taking more and more liberties away.

Will it soon be at every football stadium, shopping centre, supermarket. Then to just go out the front door, ID cards and/or even ID chips.

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And I would add, "ID cards and/or even ID chips" would not stop it "terrorism" if there were determined people that would still do it at any cost, although it would stop because the so-called ptb perps would have their way then, except for a reminder now and then and future head lines news articles " Suspected terrorists caught and stopped by ID chips"

Sean 'lifeinthemix' posted here this morning directly accusing Ben Fellows of being a heroin addict and posting lots of hs personal and private information - hence the post is hidden and 'Life' is now suspended.
Ben may have done this country a massive favour by exposing this and he certainly does not deserve to be treated like that Sean.

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:15 pm Post subject: It Appears The SIA Do Not Take Responsibility for Standards

Message to Security Industry Authority:

Dear Sirs

I have been troubled to hear news that shoddy practice has been observed by the Olympics security contractor G4S. These include suggestions that some of the staff who will be serving in supervisory roles do not have the necessary SIA certification. Please would you advise me what actions that you propose to undertake in order to ensure that all of the Olympics security staff will have the required level of competence and qualifications for their roles.

Kind regards,

Frank Hopkins

The reply:

Dear Mr Hopkins,

Thank you for your email.

In order to obtain an SIA license the SIA do numerous checks on the applicants and all applicants must meet the criteria to be granted a license.

In regards to your query this is an issue for G4S and we cannot comment.

If you have any further enquiries please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page on our website at www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk. You can also check the progress of an application on our website.

It remains a criminal offence for security operatives and those deploying them to work in licensable activities without a valid SIA licence. The SIA and our partners continue to ensure that the law is properly enforced.

Sean 'lifeinthemix' posted here this morning directly accusing Ben Fellows of being a heroin addict and posting lots of hs personal and private information - hence the post is hidden and 'Life' is now suspended.
Ben may have done this country a massive favour by exposing this and he certainly does not deserve to be treated like that Sean.

Is it publicly available information? Or where did 'lifeinthemix' get it from?

Is it more propaganda to give credit to the story while they the so called ptb go on a character bashing exercise?

As for ‘Lee Hazledean’ he's just saying what the so called ptb want (although not necessarily intentionally)

The report quoting unnamed intelligence analysts in Tel Aviv fear the Iranians are back in the terrorist game in Europe and may be aiming to pull off a spectacular act of reprisal in the eye-for-an-eye war over their nuclear weapons programme.....

I picked up a Metro on the Underground yesterday, and there was a small article titled 'Game too scary for small children'; it went on about an XBOX game ad FEATURING LONDON UNDER ATTACK (my emphasis) must be broadcast after 7.30pm because it frightens children. The clip of the 18-rated Modern Warfare 3 'game' (my parenthesis) has a PG rating but watchdogs said scenes 'may cause distress'.

I didn't see any reference to the Olympics, but maybe more astute 'symbolist watchers' will._________________'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.

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